New York City Mayor de Blasio ends 2020 presidential bid

[September 20, 2019]    By Jan Wolfe

(Reuters) - New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Friday said during an MSNBC television appearance that he is dropping out of the 2020 presidential campaign.

2020 U.S. presidential candidate and New York Mayor Bill de Blasio addresses the New Hampshire Democratic Party state convention in Manchester, New Hampshire, U.S. September 7, 2019. REUTERS/Gretchen Ertl

De Blasio, 58, launched his candidacy in May with the central campaign message "Working People First", becoming at the time the 24th Democrat to attempt to take on President Donald Trump in next year’s election.

The mayor, who is barred from seeking a third four-year term in New York in 2021, has struggled to build a national profile, eclipsed by progressive U.S. senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.

De Blasio said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that he would support whoever wins the Democratic Party's nomination.

(Reporting by Jan Wolfe; Editing by Hugh Lawson)

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